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Is Allen West Predicting A Total #OccupyResoluteDesk Meltdown?

Posted on | April 4, 2012 | 23 Comments

by Smitty

Usually when he’s taking fire from FaceBook, it’s Sarah Palin. This time, Rep. Alan West lights up BHO:

President Obama’s recent rhetorical rants over the past two days are not indicative of a confident incumbent President. His actions and words more so resemble the flailing of a drowning person caught in a rip current at night with no one around for a rescue. The fella doth protest too much in desperation.

I, for one, would be completely unsurprised to have an ‘unexpected’ medical diagnosis grip BHO in time for the Democ**t convention to nominate Hillary. Maybe you get a couple of months of a Biden Administration, but so what?

via PJ Tatler

Category: Barack Obama

Jesus Knew Fear?

Posted on | April 4, 2012 | 8 Comments

by Smitty

Seriously, Mr. President: what in the eternal location of Karl Marx are you talking about: “Like us, Jesus knew doubt. Like us, Jesus knew fear.”
Contrast Matthew 27:46 with Psalm 22 very carefully before contending that Jesus really doubted, or, even at the end, really knew fear. Maybe He did. But to argue past a ‘maybe’ is to take it too far.

No, what strikes the serious reader of the Gospels is that, given a spectrum with Jesus on one end and Pontius Pilate on the other, you, Mr. President, resemble the latter far more than the former.

But we’ll be about affording you copious time to repent after the first Tuesday in November.

More at The Camp of the Saints.

via PJ Tatler

Update: linked by Obi’s Sister.

Category: Barack Obama

How Wrong Was Michelle Goldberg About Wisconsin Planned Parenthood Bombing? UPDATE: ‘I Lit Up the Clinic,’ Suspect Told Police; Offers Guilty Plea at Hearing

Posted on | April 4, 2012 | 45 Comments


“Typically, we see an upsurge in anti-abortion violence . . . when the anti-abortion movement kind of thinks it was on the verge of victory, and then finds itself somehow thwarted. . . . When there’s frustration among the anti-abortion forces, violence often results.”
— Michelle Goldberg on MSNBC, April 2, 2012

What do we know about Francis Gerald Grady, the man police have charged with Sunday’s firebombing incident at a Planned Parenthood office in Grand Chute, Wisconsin? Not a whole lot yet.

The main thing we know about Grady, 50, is that he has a lengthy criminal record dating back at least to 1999, when he was charged with failing to pay $2,128 in taxes. In May 2000, Grady pleaded guilty to cocaine possession, Three years later, Grady was accused of violating a restraining order taken out by his extranged wife, Sally. Five years ago, in June 2007, Grady pleaded guilty to felony bail-jumping and failure to pay child support.

In July 2008, Grady was arrested for reckless driving with a revoked license — he had apparently been twice convicted of DUI — and pleaded no contest in April 2010. He was represented in that case by a public defender. In August 2010, Grady was charged with “resisting or obstructing an officer,” and pleaded guilty a year later, when he was sentenced to a year on probation.

Grady’s most recent offense, prior to the Planned Parenthood incident, was when he was arrested on Dec. 26 with resisting or obstructing an officer. The district attorney formally filed that charge on Friday — Grady was scheduled for a May 3 court appearance on the charge — and two days after the charge was filed, Grady is alleged to have attacked the Planned Parenthood office in Grand Chute.

Grady’s  “bomb” was reportedly “built of a plastic bottle and chemicals that included an incendiary agent,” and was described in news accounts as a “small device” that did “minor damage” to the empty office. About an hour after that Sunday evening incident, Grady got into a traffic accident. He was subsequently identified as a suspect in the Planned Parenthood attack based on surveillance video.

This is most of what we know so far about Francis Gerald Grady, whose address is N4110 Highway E #1, Kaukauna, Wisconsin. If I had at my disposal the resources of a major news organization — such as MSNBC or the Daily Beast/Newsweek, which employs Michelle Goldberg — I believe I could dispatch a journalist to Outagamie County, Wisconsin, with an assignment to produce an in-depth feature on Grady, whose lengthy career as a petty criminal has finally brought him national notoriety.

In fact, unless I start seeing some such in-depth reporting PDQ, I might even be tempted to make that trip myself, and I guarantee you within 72 hours of my arrival in Outagamie County, I could produce a few thousand words with photos and videos that would be well worth the effort. But I’ve got other matters to attend to now. My wife and I still haven’t filed our taxes, and figuring up the travel expenses is going to be a time-consuming headache. Plus, there’s still a presidential campaign underway in nearby Pennsylvania, not to mention the fact that I’m going to have to deal with the hassles related to my recent campaign-trail encounter with the vigilant police officers of Livonia, Louisiana.

Michelle Goldberg and MSNBC, however, have no such excuse. On Monday night, MSNBC turned this Wisconsin incident into a politicized drama, with Goldberg contextualizing it as the “anti-abortion movement” feeling “thwarted,” with “frustration among the anti-abortion forces” leading to an “upsurge in anti-abortion violence.”

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Really, Michelle? Now that police have a suspect in custody, are you going to follow up on that angle, and explain how Francis Gerald Grady exemplifies the phenomenon you described? Have the producers at MSNBC booked you for tonight, so you can talk about Grady as part of the “anti-abortion movement” and the Republican “War on Women”? Or have you already booked your flight to Wisconsin, so you can give Newsweek and MSNBC exclusive coverage from the scene of the crime?

Somehow, I don’t think we’re going to get any of that kind of actual journalism from Michelle Goldberg or Lawrence O’Donnell or anybody else in the liberal media who was so eager to jump to a preordained conclusion about this incident, playing a primetime propaganda game of pin-the-tail-on-the-Republican.

Hell, no, they won’t follow up. Goldberg, O’Donnell, MSNBC, Newsweek — now that there are actual facts to report, these worthless lying scoundrels are going to drop this story and flush it down the Memory Hole as if it never happened. They ought to be indicted for fraud merely for calling themselves “journalists.”

UPDATE: While I was working on this post, Nick Martin of Talking Points Media reported:

Grand Chute Police Chief Greg Peterson said investigators in the case learned that Grady may have been involved in past protests at the office. The information was so far unconfirmed, Peterson said, but it is being looked at closely by the team of local and federal investigators handling the case.
“There was some indication that surfaced at some point that he has been involved in some of the demonstrations,” Peterson told TPM. But the chief described the information as coming from “someone who didn’t have direct knowledge,” so there was still more work to be done.

OK, so there is at least some secondhand hearsay pointing toward a connection between Grady and pro-life protests. I’ve made some phone calls, and intend to follow up on this angle. And it is with tremendous chagrin that I admit the necessity of hat-tipping . . . Charles Johnson.

Integrity: I got it. Like Paul F–king Anka, baby.

UPDATE II: Mark Leland of WLUK-TV reports that in his first court appearance today, Francis Grady offered to plead guilty and “also asked the judge if he knew how many babies were being killed at the clinic”:

According to the criminal complaint, Grady used a hammer to break a window of the clinic and then poured gasoline inside, lighting the room on fire.
After being arrested, the complaint states Grady admitted to officers, “I lit up the clinic.”
Grady appeared in court wearing a neck brace, and offering to plead guilty “today.”
The judge set a preliminary hearing for April 19.

UPDATE III: OK, there was no “bomb,” and this Grady character seems slightly deranged, judging from this account of his court hearing from Paul Srubas of the Green Bay Gazette:

Francis Grady, 50, told U.S. Magistrate Judge Sickel he planned to plead guilty, but Sickel ignored the statement and scheduled Grady for an April 19 preliminary hearing.
At one point, Grady interrupted him to ask, “Do you even care at all about the 1,000 babies that died screaming?”
Grady told his lawyer, public defender Tom Phillip he was fired for interrupting Sickel, prompting a woman from the back of the courtroom to call out, “Shut up, Frankie.”
“My sister told me to shut up,” Grady said to Phillip. . . .
Outside the courtroom, Grady told a Green Bay Press-Gazette photographer, “I just want to give one wink to my girlfriend.” When a reporter asked him why he had planted a bomb at the clinic, Grady corrected him, saying, “There was no bomb, it was gasoline.” He said he did it because “they’re killing babies there.”

I just got off the phone with the Grand Chute police chief. I’ll have more news about this case later.

 




 

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Category: Crime, MSNBC, Planned Parenthood, Wisconsin

Dear 5th Circuit …

Posted on | April 4, 2012 | 14 Comments

by Smitty

So, like, this is a response to your way totally uptight letter dated April III, MMXII. Noting that it was dated, you know, April III, we figured that this was three times an April Fool’s joke, or something.

And so we’re including with this little memo your three single-spaced pages. Yeah, you might think “They’re blank!”, and stuff. But we worked totally hard to get a single space character on each one. Get it? Single spaced? Welcome to the ‘space age’ DOJ, Mike Foxtrot! I know you guys were all spun up, and thought you were gonna rich slap* us, but we figured you left us a totally easy out for a reason.

After all, you wouldn’t want to hassle us and cut into our party time, and whatnot. We’re just getting wrecked over here doing all of this political stuff for the re-election. People harshing our mellow with all these Fast & Furious questions, FOIA gras requests, like we’re some kind of a French restaurant or something. See what we did there?

Man, we don’t care what you guys in the 5th do with bouncing laws. Congress is paid by the law; they’ll just throw together some more crap like ObamaCare. Just as long as you make sure the ones you bounce are the ones we want you bouncing. Are you smelling what we’re stepping in?

Now save all your non-triumphant attitude for the next Republican administration, which will be. . .ha! We’ve got that rigged, and don’t worry your pretty heads how. There won’t be another Republican administration, and you won’t be getting your nose dislocated about the Administration’s opinions. Or maybe you will.

Cordially,
D. L. Kaersvang.

*The maneuver formerly known as ‘bitch-slapping’, but which has been newly toned into a slam on the 1%.

Category: Uncategorized

Police Charge Career Criminal in Wisconsin Planned Parenthood Bombing

Posted on | April 4, 2012 | 29 Comments

Jim Collar of the Appleton (Wisc.) Post-Crescent reports:

Police and federal investigators suspect a Brillion man who has an extensive criminal record was responsible for planting the homemade explosive that ignited a Sunday fire at a Planned Parenthood clinic.
The 50-year-old man was jailed early Tuesday morning for violating terms of his probation, though police have not yet recommended charges related to the bombing at the clinic at 3800 N. Gillett St. The man’s criminal history includes convictions for cocaine possession and delivery, resisting or obstructing police, bail jumping and disorderly conduct, court records show.

The Associated Press reports:

The FBI says 50-year-old Francis Grady is charged with arson of a building used in interstate commerce and intentionally damaging a facility that provides reproductive health services.

The “bomb” was reportedly “built of a plastic bottle and chemicals that included an incendiary agent,” and was previously described as a “small device” that did “minor damage” to the empty office.

Grady seems to have the proverbial police record “as long as your arm,” and we don’t know what inspired him to commit this particular crime. The dope-dealing bail-jumper would seem to be an unlikely agent of a Republican “War on Women,” as MSNBC portrayed this crime.

Not your typical “Values Voter,” IYKWIMAITYD.

So the whole jumping-to-conclusions method of media analysis has once again failed, and I must now also confess that my own hunch about the case was wrong. Read more

Category: Crime, Planned Parenthood, Wisconsin

WISCONSIN, MARYLAND REPUBLICAN PRIMARY RESULTS HQ

Posted on | April 3, 2012 | 95 Comments

UPDATE 10:50 p.m. ET: Chris Moody of Yahoo News writes about Santorum’s campaign in Wisconsin, which included visits to seven bowling alleys and more than a few beers:

He has arguably been one of the hardest working candidates in the race, having labored his way up from the bottom of the polls when he held events in Iowa that literally no one showed up for, to becoming the lead rival to the frontrunner. The man has only taken five days off the campaign trail since last summer, and spent most of that time eking his way along financially. With weak organization to speak of and an entourage that consisted of little more than the candidate and a friend with a Dodge Ram, Santorum went from being the candidate who could hardly get his name on the ballot in some states to becoming a household name.

Chris, you’re wrong: Santorum is not “arguably . . . one of the hardest working candidates,” he is the hardest working candidate, period. There is no argument. Nobody has out-worked this guy, and if it wasn’t for his hard work, he never would have won Iowa, let alone Missouri, Colorado, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, North Dakota, Kansas, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana.

UPDATE 10:40 p.m. ET: In my local congressional district, Maryland’s 6th, incumbent Republican Rep. Roscoe Bartlett survives with 45% against 21% for David Brinkley, one of seven GOP challengers on the ballot.

In Wisconsin, it’s Romney 42%, Santorum 38% with 65% of precincts reporting. Remember that Romney spent more than $3 million airing attack ads against Santorum in Wisconsin, outspending the Santorum campaign 4-to-1 in advertising.

UPDATE 10:30 p.m. ET: Some good news: In the Maryland GOP Senate primary, with 60% of precincts reporting, Dan Bongino leads with 32% to 29% for Richard Douglas. A total of 10 candidates on the ballot in that primary, the winner facing Democrat Ben Cardin.

UPDATE 10:20 p.m. ET: Latest from Wisconsin: Romney 43% to Santorum’s 38%, with 42% of precincts reporting.

UPDATE 10:15 p.m. ET: Notice that Michelle Malkin directs her readers to “Latest MSM coverage of the D.C. and Maryland results here” — the link is to MSNBC. Their coverage of the Repubican presidential campaign has arguably been more fair and balanced than the Romney News Network.

Malkin endorsed Santorum in January.

BTW, according to an analysis by the New Yorker, when all is said and done, Romney will fall short of the 1,144 delegates needed to clinch.

Linked by Bob Belvedere at the Camp of the Saints — thanks!

UPDATE 9:50 p.m. ET: Fox News cut away from Rick Santorum’s speech tonight after a couple of minutes. With 19% of precincts reporting now in Wisconsin, it’s Romney 42%, Santorum 39%. The networks have already called Wisconsin for Romney, who is now giving an extraordinarily lame victory speech in Milwaukee.

Excuse the long delay in reporting. Got a late deadline tonight, so I took a brief nap.

UPDATE 8:30 p.m. ET: In early results in the Maryland GOP Senate primary, Dan Bongino leads Richard Douglas 34%-26% so far.

UPDATE 8:20 p.m. ET: The networks called Maryland for Mitt Romney as soon as the polls closed. With  5% of precincts reporting, it’s Romney 53%, Santorum 27% in Maryland.

PREVIOUSLY (7:56 p.m. ET)

Today, after covering the Republican primary campaign for months, I finally got to vote in a primary, casting my ballot here in Maryland for Rick Santorum and U.S. Senate candidate Dan Bongino.

Of course, Maryland is a very liberal state and, as such, is considered a shoo-in for the former governor of Massachusetts, so Mitt Romney will pick up 37 delegates in a state he’s got zero chance of winning in November. Because he’s inevitable! And electable!

Polls close at 8 p.m. ET in Maryland. Meanwhile, all eyes will be on Wisconsin, where polls close at 8 p.m. Central, 9 p.m ET. If you’re a Santorum supporter in Wisconsin, make sure you vote. If you’re a Romney supporter in Wisconsin, don’t bother — he’s a shoo-in! Inevitable! Electable! All that crap the talking heads on Fox News say!

Rick Santorum will have his election night event in the Pittsburgh suburb of Mars, Pa. The next round of primaries is three weeks away, April 24, and if Santorum can win his home state of Pennsylvania, he’s still in the game, no matter what the Fox News talking heads say. Santorum has already announced his Wednesday campaign schedule in Pennsyvania.

Category: Election 2012, Maryland, Wisconsin

Republicans Engage in Shameful Hate Attacks: ‘Jewbags … Jew Cash Money’

Posted on | April 3, 2012 | 9 Comments

Oh, wait — no, this story is about Democrats:

The Democratic Party’s newly appointed Jewish outreach liaison is pictured on Facebook in a series of provocative photos with her friends holding dollar bills and referring to themselves as “Jewbags” and the “Jew cash money team.”
Dani Gilbert, who has been a staffer in the office of Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D., Fla.), was recently appointed as the Democratic National Committee’s Jewish outreach liaison, according to her Twitter feed. . . .
In one photo, Gilbert is seen kissing paper currency of undetermined denomination. The caption at the bottom of the photo reads “JEWBAGS.” A comment left on the posting refers to Gilbert and a coterie of female companions as the “Jew cash money team.” Other photos depict Gilbert as a bit of a party girl, including one featuring an assortment of condoms.

(Via Ace of Spades and the Shark Tank.) They called her “a bit of a party girl,” because you can’t call Democrat women “sluts” anymore.

Category: Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Democrats

GOP Budget Is Social Darwinism?

Posted on | April 3, 2012 | 5 Comments

by Smitty

Breitbart has the clip. What I want to is, given that assertion about the GOP, does that make #OccupyResoluteDesk’s budget Progressive Creationism? Or was it just a lousy fairy tale?

Category: Barack Obama
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